Arab''s Journey to Colonial Spanish America - The Travels of Elias Al-Musili in the Seventeenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Caesar E. Farah was professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic history at the University of Minnesota. He authored numerous books including Islam, The Sultan's Yemen: Nineteenth-Century Challenge to Ottoman Rule, and Arabs and Ottomans: A Checkered Relationship. Klappentext This translation originally published: 2003. Zusammenfassung Rediscovered in Syria in the late 19th century! this account relates the experiences of Reverend Elias al-Musili! a priest of the Chaldean Church and the first known visitor to the Americas from the Middle East. Supported by Spain and the pope! he offers a unique perspective on the New World.

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• Authors: Elais Al-Musili, Elais Farah Al-Musili, Elias Al-Musili, Elias Farah Al-Musili, Elias/ Farah Al-musili, Caesar Farah, Caesar E Farah
• Assisted by: Caesar E Farah (Editor), Caesar E. Farah (Editor), Caesar E Farah (Translation), Caesar E. Farah (Translation)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780815632665
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3266-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Tran; Middle East Literature in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales